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Gunnerton Crag camps
Scheduled Monument area - based on Historic England data (Open Government Licence).
Gunnerton Crags, located to the east of the village of Gunnerton in Northumberland, are the site of a Romano-British settlement. There are suggestions that this overlayed an earlier iron Age hillfort, but this remains to be confirmed. The site is a Scheduled Monument (legally protected).
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EN0520 Gunnerton Crag Camps, Northumberland
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Lying to the E of the village of Gunnerton on Gunnerton Crags (Gunnerton Nick). During the excavation of a Romano-British settlement in 1880 (Rome Hall, 1885), a fragment of wall was discovered underlying the settlement in the SW corner. This, combined with oval and circular depressions, which were interpreted as hut circles and its position on a promontory, has led to speculation that there is an underlying Iron Age fort. The 'wall' was inspected by Hogg in 1941 who dismissed it as a field lynchet. He also found further sections beneath the entrance and as a 'mass of rubble' in the W. The interior contains the foundations of five huts and one possibly later rectangular building. An enclosed yard is visible on the north side of entrance. No further investigation has taken place and its interpretation as a promontory fort remains unverified. Depicted on 1894-99 OS mapping as a Romano-British remains. Scheduled as Gunnerton Crags Camps
Source: Lock, Gary and Ralston, Ian. 2024. Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland. Available at: https://hillforts.arch.ox.ac.uk (CC BY-SA 4.0)
